9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you. …
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. …
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-15)Here is a remarkable contest between wickedness and righteousness, which shall be most bold and resolute; and righteousness carries the day, as no doubt it will at last. I. Never was vice more daring than it was in Zimri, a prince of a chief house in the tribe of Simeon. Such a degree of impudence in wickedness had he arrived at that he publicly appeared leading a Midianitish harlot (and a harlot…
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